Problem with X Server when updating to 38bfc6dee33

[Michael Gmelin]

> On 3. Feb 2021, at 13:50, Thomas Laus <lausts at acm.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2/2/21 8:16 AM, David Wolfskill wrote:
>> You might want to see if this ports/UPDATING entry:
>> 
>> 20200320:
>>  AFFECTS: users of x11/libxkbcommon
>>  AUTHOR: zeising at FreeBSD.org
>> 
>>  The libxkbcommon library (x11/libxkbcommon), used to handle keyboards
>>  in some applications, most notably kde and wayland, have been switched
>>  to use evdev rules by default on FreeBSD 12 and later.  Some keys, most
>>  notably arrow keys, may not work in applications using libxkbcommon if
>>  you are using xf86-input-keyboard rather than xf86-input-libinput.
>>  If you have trouble with the keyboard keys, and if /var/log/Xorg.*.log
>>  shows that the "kbd" or "keyboard" driver is being used, you need to
>>  switch to legacy rules by setting the environment variable
>>  XKB_DEFAULT_RULES to xorg.
>>  This switch is made to match the default configuration on FreeBSD 12.1 and
>>  later, the default configuration on FreeBSD 11.3 still uses the legacy
>>  rules.
>> 
> It did not apply.  I am using xf86-input-libinput-0.30.0_1 on both of
> the problem computers.  Everything worked until I performed the 'pkg
> bootstrap -f' after my last build world update.  Until then I was able
> to start X with a working keyboard and mouse.  When my packages were
> updated after the the ABI change, the mouse and keyboard stopped
> working.  I always upgrade all of my packages after building world and
> was prompted after the change to 14.0-CURRENT from 13.0-CURRENT to do
> so.  I ran the 'pkg upgrade' command and the prompt told me to run 'pkg
> bootstrap -f' because of the ABI change.  It downloaded a new pkg
> program and then upgraded all of my packages because of the change in ABI.
> 

There was a problem with xorg-server which made it build without udev on 14.

Try reinstalling xorg-server from ports (something like: portsnap fetch extract; cd /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-server && make clean reinstall clean)

Cheers,
Michael

> Tom
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